Interviews with the director of The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc?, and Daisy Miller

A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director

Interviews with the director of Citizen Ruth, Nebraska, and The Descendants

Essays exploring the many ways in which superheroes no longer belong solely to America

How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America

Interviews derived from four decades of this American poet’s distinguished career

The biography of the spunky “Song a Minute Girl,” the first actress to have her spoken words censored

Interviews with the creator of the comics series Hate and the former editor of the often outrageous Weirdo magazine

A passport to the many nations, sports stars, and sports across the globe

A history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the Black freedom struggle in America

How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices

A recognition of the intense role war trauma played in the great writer’s characters and legacy

An extraordinary engagement with the colorful history of a storied inland waterway

The original sociological encounter with the riven demographics of the closed society

The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition

How white resistance operated and adapted to the sweeping forces of racial change

How the language of the imaginatively styled movement attracts followers to steampunk aesthetic

The first study of how the comic book moved to the center of Hollywood film production in the twenty-first century

The untold story of three New Deal cooperative farms in the most economically challenged places in the South

An examination of the emancipated islands of the Carolina coast and how their history sheds light on the difficulties of nation building

Powerful first-hand witness to the prison experience in Mississippi’s sprawling penitentiary farm

The biography of a devoted family man best known for his roles as abusive villains

Interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History

Contemporary artists revealing the state’s urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields

The first biography of the great comedic actress and star of stage and screen

Collected interviews with the director who is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave

An insider's account of the iconic hotdog cart business and its role in the French Quarter and the world

The first examination of the entire convention and the men who deliberated there

The first book-length appreciation of one of the most important comediennes of the silent film era

A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice

An intimate portrait of the famed writer, director, and activist

The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad

An unparalleled exploration of the power of art and the impulse of creation

A fascinating collection of correspondence from soldiers, nurses, and relief workers during World War I

Why so many American comics fans avidly follow medieval heroes

A thorough reckoning of the evolving ideas and legacy of a founding force in American evangelism

A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original “Boys on the Bus”

The colorful, compulsive, secretive history of famous and infamous film fiends

An extraordinary photographic documentary of the wild and cultivated plants and landscape of Faulkner’s inspirational writing sanctuary

How one of the last Louisiana Longs escaped a mental institution and died after winning election to Congress

The biography of a powerful Mississippi senator rife with contradictions

A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences

The story of a plantation heiress who threw aside convention, joined the Marines, and fought for civil rights

A dazzling collection of writers worldwide on the massive authority of the Nobel laureate

A collection exploring the extensive connections between the Nobel laureate’s work and cinema

A concise, readable biography of the Nobel laureate who defined southern literature

An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort

A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media

A look at the passionate pursuits intersecting family and public histories